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Miami hedge fund partner who set the tone for a party-hard workplace culture reported an employee to HR over a harmless doodle of his coworker and dragged it out for two weeks

Etai Eshet

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Coworker Carrie ruins her team manager’s laid-back honor system by crying bias to HR, forcing a department-wide crackdown that tanked morale and drove people to quit

Etai Eshet

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'I will personally see to it that you never work in this city or this industry again': New manager threatens employee due to "insubordination," employee records the meeting and gets the manager fired

Ben Weiss

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Resigning employee refuses to sign a “separation agreement,” demanding $5,000 per negative online post, and her firm threatens to withhold $2,200 in earned PTO if she doesn’t comply

Etai Eshet

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College sends employee to mandatory retraining months before his retirement, falsely claiming he failed a phishing test he never took

Etai Eshet

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Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

Etai Eshet

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'The guy who made my life miserable for a year is now going to be under my authority': Software engineer takes a 50% pay cut to join “dream team,” finally gets promoted over undermining team lead

Etai Eshet

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Manager ignores grocery store worker's availability with Friday night text message, says their personal life shouldn't interfere with work : 'I make $14 an hour stocking shelves'

Brad Dickson

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30-year-old quits her job of 6 years after new coworker, Ben, keeps stealing her work and credit, and faces zero consequences despite multiple complaints: ‘I addressed it with my manager, director, and HR. After a year I simply couldn’t take it anymore’

Etai Eshet

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Boss issues formal warning to employee during her approved vacation in Cabo for missing a meeting added to her work calendar while she was out of the country

Etai Eshet

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New hire quits 3 weeks into new job after being abandoned, receiving no training, and being made to feel like a burden by their manager and team members: 'Day two: He is just sitting there. No one is talking to him'

Brad Dickson

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Kentucky pizzeria threatens 24-year-old prospective business owner with lawsuit over an NDA they signed while working there as their first job at 17-years-old: 'I was 17 and just happy to get the job'

Brad Dickson

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Manager tries to get employee to work during PTO, giving her personal number to a contractor and listing her as on-call for tasks she was never hired to do: ‘I said “absolutely not!” I am taking a paid vacation and will not be coming in’

Etai Eshet

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Boss insists employees work from the office all the time without flexible arrangements, but works from home herself halting production while everyone waits for her to show up: 'My first complaint is, if boss isn't there, there's a halt in work'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: Boss fires employee as an April Fools joke, boss gets fired for real when entire team walks out: 'It's April fools! It was a joke! Get back in here!'

Brad Dickson

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Car dealership manager backtracks and says it's a prank after employee quits in response to being told he was fired for refusing to buy a car from the manager: 'I already had a better job that was able to start me immediately'

Brad Dickson

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